Current-motor



H. C. CANADAY. CURRENT MOTOR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 10. 1918.

5 A MD M MM WM C f M R Au N w e m. H m P WITNESSES ATTORNEYS HENRY o. GANADAY, or MAYFIELD, nienrocicr;

CURRENT-Moron. 1

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar 23,1920.

Application fiieaznu 10, 1918. seriaino. 244,3oc.

To all whom it may concern:

lle it known that I, HENRY CLAY CANA- oiir, a citizen of the Unlted States, and a resident of Mayfield, in the county of Graves and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Uu'rent-hlotors, of which the following is a specification.

ilily invention is an improvel'nent in current motors, and has for its object to provide a motor of the character specified adapted to be arranged in any running stream, wherein a wheel is provided and means for supporting the same, the wheel being movable on the support to vary the depth of immersion of the working blades, and wherein adjustable mechanism is provided for deflecting the water from both sides toward the wheel.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the improved motor;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows adjacent to the line;

Fig. 3 is a rear view of one of the blades showing the tensioning mechanismin connection therewith.

In the present embodiment of the invention a pair of floats or scows 1 is provided,

the said scows being arranged in spaced parallel relations, and they are connected by a species of platform 2 having intermediate its front and rear an opening in which the water wheel, to be described, is arranged. The front end of each scow is beveled at its inner corner, as shown at 3, inwardly toward the wheel, and leaves or wings a are adjustably mounted on these beveled corners, the said wings or leaves being movable vertically in a manner to be presently described.

A pair of inclined trackwz ys 5 is connected with each scow, the members of each pair being at opposite sides of the scow, and each tracliway is braced by an inclined brace 6. A slide 7 is mounted to move on each member of each pair, and each slide carries a bearing 8. These bearings are alined, and a shaft 9 is journaled in the four bearings, the shaft carrying the wheel between the scows. A flexible member 10, as, for instance, a cord or cable, is connected with each slide at one end of the cord or cable and at the rear end of the slide, and each flexible member passes upwardly over a pulley 11 journaled in the upper end of the tnackway or rail 5, and then downwardly to wind upon a reel 12 journaled in bearing arms 13 on the braces 6. Each of these reels may have any suitable mechanism conneoted therewith for turning the reel to wind up the flexible niembe and any suitable mechanism may be provided for preventing reverse movement of the reel under the weight of the shaft and water wheel.

The water wheel consists of a series of col la-rs 13, the said collars or hubs being mounted on a sleeve 1 1 which has a peripheral cross section of polygonal form, being octagonal in the present instance, and the hubs or collars while movable freely longitudinally of the sleeve are constrained to rotate there with. The sleeve may be keyed or otherwise secured to the shaft, and a series of radial arms 15-is secured to each collar, each series CO11S1Stl11g 0'f eight arms in the present instance.

The arms of the series are in register longitudinally of the shaft, and a blade 16 is secured to each set of registering arms. These blades are of a width to extend from the periphery of the sleeve 1% to the ends of the arms 15, and the arms of each set are braced against each other by flexible me1nbers 17, as, for instance, cords or the like, two series of flexible members being provided in the present instance. The arms of each set are connected by turn buckles 18 and 19, respectively. In the present instance there are four arms to each set and the two central arms are connected by the turn buckle 18. The two central arms are also connected to the outermost collars by the turn buckles 19.

Each leaf 4 has a pair of vertical slots 20 which register with openings in the beveled corners of the scows, and bolts 21 are passed through the registering openings, from the rear for "ardly, each bolt being engaged by a nut 22 to adjustably connect the leaf with the scow. It will be evident that by loosening the nuts the lea ves may be adjusted vertically, and each leaf is of considerable depth, as shown in Fig. 2. so that it may extend below the bottom of the scow, to deflect the flowing water inwardly toward the central line between the scow and into contact with the blades of the water wheel. Power is taken from the shaft 9 in any suitable or desired manner, as, for instance, by a pulley on the shaft. The float, consisting of the scows and the connecting platform 2, may be anchored or otherwise secured at any desired point in the stream, and when not in use the rigid with the shaft and having a polygonal Wheel may be drawn from out the Water by periphery, the hubs having openings fitting 10 means of the flexible members 10. The the sleeve, radial arms secured to the hubs, power of the Wheel may be also varied by blades secured to the arms, and means for varying the depth of immersion of the WOIk adjusting the hubs and arms toward each ing blades. other, said means comprising turn buckles I claim: 7 arranged between sundry of the arms and 15 In a current motor, a Wheel conslstmg of sundry of the hubs.

a shaft, a series of hubs on the shaft, a sleeve HENRY C. CANADAY. 

